If the 02 is not currently text, then why hasn't the 0 been dropped before the
concatenation?

Presumably the 2 is a number formatted as custom 00

If it is currently text, it should hold the 0 through your concatenation.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:38:00 -0800, markmcd
wrote:

I have a situation where there are 6 colums with data in each row:

V, 02, BA,1,3,R

When I concatenate this, the result drops the 0 preceding the 2 and gives
the result V2BA13R when it should be V02BA13R. How do I do this?

I cannot change the 0 to a O as part of the process. It must remain as 0. I
attempted to find/replace the 0 with '0 to make it text but that didn't work
either.

Anyone have any ideas?